JEOPARDYHow do Human Sensors Work?

Center for Computational Neurobiology, University of Missouri

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This is what sensors send signals through to reach the Computer brick

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Q: What are wires?

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QuestionQ: What is the ultrasonic sensor?

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Name the sensor that allows the Robot to be capable of avoiding an object (not running into it) with no input from the user

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Q: What are the touch sensor, sound sensor, light sensor, and ultrasonic sensor??

Name the four Robot Sensors discussed in today’s lesson.

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Q: What is the sound sensor?

Name the sensor that requires input from you in order to navigate around a room

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Q: What is if its program tells it to?

This is the only time that the Robot can act on information from its sensors.

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Q: What are sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch?

Name the five senses

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Q: What are smell and taste ?

Name the two senses that humans have to which Robots have no equivalent

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Q: What is that the peripheral nervous system branches out to the sensors and muscles of the body and communicates with the central nervous system which comprises of the brain and spinal cord?

Describe the two parts of the nervous system

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Q: What are the ears?

Sensors in this part of the human body give the brain information about balance

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Q: What is acid?

We discussed certain sensors in blood vessels. These sensors detect the amount of this in the blood

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Q: What is the pupil?

Name the hole in the center of the eye

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Q: What is refracting?

This is the term for bending light, something performed by the cornea and lens of the eye to direct light toward nerve cells in the back of the eye.

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Q: What is echolocation?

Name the process performed by certain animals which is similar to how the ultrasonic sensor functions

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Q: What are detect the amount of ambient light and detect the amount of generated light reflected off of an object?

Name the two different ways the light sensor can work

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Q: What are cones- which detect detail and color in good light- and rods- which detect the presence of objects in bad light?

Name the two types of nerve cells in the back of your eye, and what each type of nerve cell does

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Q: What are Sound Waves?

Sound is made up of vibrations in the air called this

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Q: What is sound B is softer but has a higher pitch?

There are two sounds, sound A and sound B. Sound B causes the diaphragm to vibrate with smaller, more frequent vibrations. We can say this about sound B with respect to sound A.

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Q: What is the diaphragm?

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This is the name of the thin piece of material that vibrates in the sound sensor

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Q: What is the auditory nerve?

This is the name of the nerve that sends the signal from the cochlea’s hair cells to the nervous system.

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Q: What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?

Name the three structures in the ear that carry vibrations from the eardrum to the cochlea

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Q: What is you wouldn’t be able to feel anything with your fingers?

This would happen if you lost the nerve endings in your fingers

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Q: What are small particles of the pizza?

When you smell something (for example a pizza), it’s because you have breathed in this

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Q: What are pain, pressure, and temperature?

Name the three main stimuli that human touch sensors can detect

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Q: What are pain and pressure?

Itching and Tickling are small versions of these respective stimuli

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Q: What is ten?

Dogs can detect this many times the number of smells that humans can detect.

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Q: What are taste buds?

This is the name of the receptors that recognize tastes

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Q: What are sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami?

These are the five different tastes recognized by humans

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Q: What is flavor is taste with smell, texture, and other sensations?

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This is the difference between taste and flavor

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Q: What is a savory, meaty flavor?

This is what umami tastes like

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Q: What are gustatory receptor cells?

This is the name of the cells that comprise taste buds

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QuestionQ: Question HERE?

Describe the pathway of how sight occurs.

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